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A simple but elegant shawl, Granary begins with a basic stockinette body and finishes with a delicate lace border. Together, the leaf motif and the rich, golden brown dye of The Plucky Knitter yarn evoke the drying crops stored in the granaries of colonial Boston.

This two-color shawl begins at the top edge with a long garter tab cast on. Stitches are picked up and knit along the edge of the garter tab and the shawl is worked downward and outward from there. The lower edge features a pretty scalloped border that is finished with a picot bind off.

These playful mittens work up quickly in worsted weight yarn. A surprise of color is hidden inside the hemmed cuff. For a special treat, use an extra soft yarn for the inside hem like the cashmere used in the sample.

Named for Lisbeth Salander the heroine of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, this top-down, triangular shawl transitions from a simple matrix of yarn overs, into increasingly more complex stitch patterns.

Winter Wonderland is now available for purchase as a Ravely download. The downloadable version uses a commercial yarn, and has instructions for working this design as a two-color shawl. Winter Wonderland is still an excellent choice as a single color, handspun shawl.

This playful shawl takes advantage of simple slipped stitches, and garter stitch stripes to create a fun graphic pattern. Slipped stitches are a simple way to achieve a color work look while only using one color at a time.

Taking advantage of gradient yarn, the Puschkinia socks start crisp and bold at the cuff, with a sweet floral motif. As the stripe pattern is worked to the toe, the colors begin to merge together giving the socks a soft faded feel like a pair of your favorite jeans.

Saranac begins with the long, peaked border, worked side to side on a small number of sts. The border is then turned 90 degrees, and sts are picked up along the top edge of the border. The crescent shape is created with short rows that are worked in the body of the shawl.

This sock with its ornate cuff, and simple leg and foot, is perfect for showing off beautiful gradient yarns. KnitCircus Thrilling yarn comes divided into two cakes, allowing the knitter to easily achieve a matched pair.

Ralston is a bottom up, seamless, yoked sweater with a pattern of chevrons that graduate in size at the yoke and on the sleeves to the elbows. The chevron pattern is worked with slipped stitches, so there is no need to carry two yarns at a time to create the colorwork. This is a great beginning colorwork project, that has enough interest for mor...

This pattern is named for Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, the location of the martians landing in the Orson Wells radio dramatization of H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds. I grew up not far from Grover’s Mill, listening to the radio broadcast was an annual tradition in our home.

Wrapped once, twice or three times around your neck this playful four-color cowl is as much fun to wear as it is to make. A simple pattern of stranded colorwork diamonds embellishes one edge, followed by lively garter stitch stripes.

This oversized sweater is worked in pieces from the bottom up. It has side slits at the bottom hem and dropped shoulders. The sweater is worked in sport weight yarn at a looser than called for gauge to give the piece a lovely drape. It is meant to be worn with 3-5” of positive ease.

Worked in The Fibre Company’s new Meadow yarn, this color blocked cowl is knit in the round starting with the garter st border. Typha comes in two sizes, a long cowl that can be looped around the neck multiple times, or a small size that fits close to the neck for extra warmth without added bulk.

This sweet, spring cardigan is worked from the bottom up in one piece. Narrow bands of lace, with a delicate floral motif, flank the front edges while a broad panel of the same lace adds interest at the back. The sleeves are worked separately and joined to the body at the yoke.

This sweet wrap is worked starting with the lace border. The body of the piece, worked in garter st stripes is worked sideways and knit onto the live border sts. Instructions are written for two sizes - an extra long scarf with a finished measurement of 90 x 9.5” and a small shawl with a finished measurement of 64 x 13”.

This child’s cardigan is worked in one piece from the bottom up. The sleeves are worked separately and joined to the body before working the yoke. Button bands are picked up along the front edges and worked in garter stitch. The sleeve and bottom hems have a picot edge. The picot is created in the cast on. Eliminate the picot edges to create a b...

Named for a street in Greenwich Village the Perry Street Rugby is a striped, garter stitch, pullover with a chunky cable on one side. This sweater is designed to be worn with 2-3” of positive ease at the bust.

This crescent shaped lace shawl begins at the bottom edge with a picot cast on, followed by a lovely border of gently curved lace, which gives the shawl a pretty scalloped bottom edge. The body of the shawl is an array of eyelets that are worked in short rows to create the crescent shape.

Euphrosyne, named for the greek goddess of joy and the incarnation of grace and beauty, is a delicate semi-circular shawl. It starts with a garter tab and is worked from the center top down. The edging is knitted onto live stitches at the bottom of the shawl.

Zelkova is women’s cardigan with a lovely lace pattern flanking the button bands. Waist shaping gives Zelkova a decidedly feminine fit. With three quarter sleeves this cardigan is perfect for spring and even cool summer evenings.

This is the TTL Mystery Sock for 2012. This mystery KAL begins on January 1, 2012. One clue will be given each week during the month of January. Please join us in the Through the Loops Group here on Ravelry.

The Brueghel sock is a cuff down sock, adorned with twisted stitches and lace. The “Harvest” lace pattern reminds me of spades so I named it in honor of sixteenth century Dutch painter Pieter Brueghel best known for his paintings of peasants.

The two color Ziggity shawl is shaped with 2 increases on every row. The top edge curves slightly up at the center back to give added protection to the neck on cold days. The bottom edge has a gentle curve which may be blocked to soft points as shown or with a straight edge.

This semi circular shawl is worked from the center top down and out to the gently scalloped edge. The ribbed edging allows for the addition or subtraction of rows to make the shawl larger or smaller. Work at a larger gauge for a larger shawl.

I originally created these stranded mittens for a swap with Pinneguri. I am always awed by Pinneguri’s exceptional color work and was more than a bit intimidated to be making a stranded project for her. Her wonderful sense of color and pattern were the inspiration for this design.

The Andokides Jacket is an unfitted, colorwork jacket that is worked from the bottom up, in the round in one piece. The sleeves are worked separately and joined to the body at the yoke. The front is steeked and button bands are added.

A cabled icord embellishes the brim of this hat. Stitches are picked up and twisted cables are worked to the crown. This pattern coordinates with the Clepsydra Mittens. The set may be purchased together in the Clepsydra ebook.

This fingering weight, two-color, triangular shawl is worked from the center top edge, down. The body of the shawl begins with a simple lace pattern that is easily memorized. The lace is followed by a broad border of two row, garter stitch stripes. Finally a pretty lace edging is knit onto the live stitches on the lower edge of the shawl. Worked...

Lonicera is a wrap style vest that can be worn in several ways - with the ends hanging casually in front, tied at the waist, with one end draped around the neck, with the fronts wrapped around and tied in the back, with a shawl pin holding the fronts closed…

This is the pattern for the Through the Loops Socktoberfest Mystery Sock ‘09. A new clue will be posted on my website each Thursday through the month of October. Please join us in the Through the Loops Group for a KAL.

Miller’s Hat is a unisex hat with a bit of slouch, cables and a brim that dips down to keep the ears and the back of the neck toasty warm. The herringbone stitch pattern at the brim gives a bit of body to the fabric as well as adding textural interest to balance against the bold cables of the upper part of the hat. The garter stitch edging...

Dorothea is worked from the brim to the crown. It is embellished with a leaf motif and twisted ribbing. The yarn is worked at a tight gauge to give the hat body and stability, but there is still a lot of stretch due to the nature of the twisted ribbing.

Worked from the top down, the neck edge and button bands are worked in one piece with the body leaving minimal finishing. Waist shaping is added for a flattering fit. The simple lines of Acer will show you favorite yarn and buttons off beautifully.

When I asked for help naming these mittens, my daughter saw chicken wire in the cable patterning. She instantly went to her computer where she found the binomial nomenclature for chicken, “Gallus gallus”. (Yes, she is a science nerd.) So, we now have a pattern named for that most revered of birds.